Fifty ways to love your lever: Myosin motors

Cell

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-157

  Block, Steven M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; KINESIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; BIOPHYSICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; HUMAN; MOTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0030592549     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81332-X     Document Type: Review

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